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Police arrest man suspected of encouraging kidnappings
12.11.2007
The domestic intelligence agency believes Danes traveling abroad were to be
taken hostage and used as bargaining chips to force the release of terrorism
suspects
Police arrested a man with Turkish roots Sunday under suspicions he urged
terror groups abroad to kidnap Danish nationals.
According to PET, the domestic intelligence agency, the 22-year-old suspect
has links to two men arrested on 4 September on suspicion that they were
preparing explosives for use in a terror attack.
PET officials stated that the man arrested Sunday in the Nørrebro district
of Copenhagen apparently had hoped that by kidnapping Danes abroad, pressure
could be exerted on Danish authorities to release the two suspects.
PET was expected to demand that the man remain in police custody when he
appears in front of a judge Monday.
While the most recent arrest did not lead PET to adjust its evaluation of
the current terror risk in Denmark, the Foreign Ministry issued a warning on
its website to Danes residing or traveling in Turkey, Syria, Pakistan and
Afghanistan and other areas where the al-Qaida terror group is known to be
active.
'We don't want to frighten people, but they should use their common sense
and be aware if they notice anything unusual,' Lars Thuesen, an official at
the Foreign Ministry, said.
The incident also raised the stakes in Denmark's on-going efforts to prevent
a domestic terrorist attack, according Hans Jørgen Bonnichsen, who headed
PET between 1997 and 2006.
'I can't recall a situation in which people have called for action to
influence a current event,' said Bonnichsen. 'And we haven't seen this in
other places in Europe since the Red Army Faction in Germany was active.'
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